Fly Overs and Hangers On

Continuing my efforts to record not just what is in bloom here, but who my visitors are.  In no particular order...

Orange Sulphur - perhaps a Sleepy Orange Sulphur (Eurema nicippe) Update:  Now believe this to be an Orange-barred Sulphur (Phoebis philea).

Snout butterfly (Libythean bachmanii) Their closed wings afford them camouflage as "dead leaves".

Teeny-tine crab spider (aka Flower Spider) Thomisidae, possibly misumessus?

Syrphid Fly (Palpada vinetorum) on Pyracantha blooms

Crab spider - Thomisidae

Tumbling Flower Beetle - named for it's behavior when netted.  It is black - the "color spots" are bits of clinging pollen from the Primrose blossoms.  

So very noisy overhead - four small planes flying in formation one way....

...then heading right back the other direction.

First Red Admiral Butterfly for the season (Vanessa atalanta)

Paper wasps - these had to go - they were building too close to the front door.

I originally thought this was Palpita kimballi but they don't occur in Texas.  Turns out this ghostly visitor resting on the coral yucca stalk is Stemorrahges costata.

Sleepy Orange  Orange-barred Sulphur and Crab Spider time-share.  Bees reportedly won't land on a flower that has anything obviously unflowerlike inside.  Some of these spiders can change color to "hide" while hunting, and will hold their long front legs out to mimic stamen filaments.